Section: Dissemination

Popular science writing

The members of IBIS are actively involved in the dissemination of research results in systems biology and bioinformatics to a wider, non-specialist audience. François Rechenmann is leader of the editorial committee of the Interstices (http://interstices.info ). Interstices offers pedagogic presentations of research themes and activities in the computer science domain, including at its interface with life sciences.

In the context of the Math C2+ initiative for high-school students, François Rechenmann has led two sessions of a workshop introducing the notion of algorithm. The objective set to the students was to design an algorithm for sorting a stack of objects, such as pancakes, according to their size and through only one type of swapping operation (see http://interstices.info/algo-crepes for the presentation of the algorithm).